Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He is considered by some to be one of the most successful investors in the world. Buffett is the chairman, CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, and is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people. He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008 and as the third wealthiest in 2015. In 2012 Time named Buffett one of the world's most influential people...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 August 1930
CityOmaha, NE
CountryUnited States of America
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Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate diversification, the payment of high and unnecessary fees to managers and advisors, and the use of borrowed money can destroy the decent returns that a life-long owner of equities would otherwise enjoy. Indeed, borrowed money has no place in the investor's tool kit.
There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.
If you can't communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you're giving up your potential.
A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.
Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
What we really want to do is buy businesses that we would be happy to own forever.
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.
An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.
Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.
I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.